# TestDisk: undelete file for NTFS

### From CGSecurity

This Recovery example guides you through TestDisk step by step to undelete files from NTFS filesystem. When a file is deleted, the data remains on the disk, unless new data have overwritten your lost file, TestDisk can recover it.

## Start the undelete process

- Select Advanced

- Select the partition that was holding the lost files and choose Undelete

## NTFS file undelete

TestDisk scans MFT entries for deleted files. NTFS deleted files found by TestDisk are listed.

Pickup the file to recover and press 'c' to copy the file.

## Select where recovered files should be written

Select the destination

## Recovery is completed

When the NTFS file recovery is finished, choose Quit.

For a maximum of security, TestDisk doesn't try to unerase files but lets you copy the deleted files you want to recover on another partition or disk. Be careful, do not write anything on the filesystem that was holding the data, writing new files may overwrite the files you want to recover.

TestDisk can undelete

- files from NTFS partition since version 6.11,
- files and directory from FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 filesystem,
- files from ext2 filesystem.

If a lost file is still missing, give PhotoRec a try. PhotoRec is a signature based file recovery utility and may be able to recover your data where other methods failed.

Category: Data Recovery